Car Guy Magazine Car Guy Magazine Issue 914 | Page 38

Dr. Nutt and local builders completed
the basement level, which consisted of nine
rooms. The rest of the house is unfinished to
this day. Tools, half-completed wood works
and even the crate the piano arrived in can
still be seen on the unfinished upper floors.
While these beautiful mansions comprised what was considered “Natchez proper,” a part of Natchez described as “Natchez
improper” was located in an area along the
river call Natchez Under-the-Hill. This was
a wide flat piece of land by the river where
the various types of boats would load and
unload cargo, and at one time was considered the wickedest waterfront on the Mississippi River. Some of the human cargo which
came ashore consisted of drunks, bandits,
murderers, and other rabble-rousers who frequented the bars, taverns and brothels along
Silver Street. Fist and knife fights were considered normal evening activity, and muggings,
shootings, murders were a nightly occurrence. As travel on the Mississippi declined,
so did the importance of Natchez Underthe-Hill. Today it is mostly restaurants and the
tourist shops.
Brits by the River, a British car show hosted by the English Motoring Club of Mississippi every September usually brings out about
fifty interesting British automobiles. Of note
with this club, it is th